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Lot ID: 17569
Nickolas  Muray:   Babe Ruth
 
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Description
Artist: Muray Nickolas
Title: Babe Ruth
Style: Modern (ca. 1880-1945), Celebrity Portrait
Medium: Photographs, Silver print
Year: 1927
Print/Casting Year: ie. circa 1999
Size: height - 13.75 in, width - 10.75 in, depth - 0 in
Markings: signed, title, date, artist and edition number all in pencil on print verso.
Also on verso: Signature by Nickolas Muray's daughter, Mimi Muray.
Estate print, print type, printer (Sal Lopes) on print verso

Foundry/Publisher: Estate of Nickolas Muray


Edition: 3/50
Estimate: from $2,000 to $3,000

Seller's Description:
Babe Ruth, 1927
Gelatin silver print
13.75 x 10.75 in. (35 x 27.3 cm.)
Edition: 3/50

Nickolas Muray's portrait of Babe Ruth was taken in the fall of 1927 when he hit his 60th home run on September 30th. The portrait was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. and it was recently used as a museum banner.

This image is in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; and the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY and has been published in The Revealing Eye personalities of the 1920s in photographs by Nickolas Muray and words by Paul Gallico, 1967 published by Atheneum, and Celebrity Portraits of the Twenties and Thirties 135 photographs by Nickolas Muray (has Babe Ruth on the back cover) jointly published by Dover Publications and Eastman house in 1978. Babe Ruth is plate/page 112.
  • Condition Report
    • Current lot doesn't have any damage.
  • History & Provenance
    • Provenance:
      Estate of Nickolas Muray.


      Publications
      Picturing New York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, edited by Sarah Meister.

      Camera: A History of Photography from the Daguerreotype to the Digital Age
      Exhibition catalogue produced for the survey exhibition of the George Eastman House collection.
      Sterling Publishing Co. and George Eastman House, Publishers.
      (this book may not be out yet)

      The American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports
      Radar, 2009


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      Shipping Weight: 6 lbs
      Framing: No
      Item Location: Texas, USA
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Sales Results for Comparable Work

  • Nickolas Muray
    Babe Ruth, 1920 - 1929 1920 - 1929
    Gelatin Silver Print
    10.7 in. x 13.5 in. / 27.3 cm. x 34.2 cm.

    Sold for US $4,541

    Christie's New York:
    Tuesday, October 22, 2002, (Lot 00238)
    Photographs

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